City of Broadly-Painted Shoulders

If you’re a mural artist, what a thrill it must be to have your work seen by so many thousands of people every day. It must be that much more gratifying to paint something besides a woman posing next to an oversized beer bottle, which is typically on this building. The downside is that everyone is a critic, so I’m sure he’ll get an earful about those, um, big nostrils on Jonathan Toews. Mario on the assignment desk, to his credit, kept his eye on this Chicago Blackhawks mural – er, beer ad – and on the schedule so I could shoot this building. If the painter was just using a harness, it would have been interesting to photograph him as he painted in the face. But the horizontal scaffolding would have marred the full effect of seeing the mural. The sun was out, so I parked and waited for the mural to emerge from shade, hoping the scaffolding wouldn’t lower much further. I couldn’t leave without seeing the eye-popping red hit by direct sunlight.

Looks like a very athoritive figuare. very strong but a little lack of Intelligence protective but fire in the eyes of this champion ihope that is the only way you could pulled off all that stenght without upset definately a winner for the symbol of power.
KATYCE FORBES

A little touch up on the nose and mouth, face kinda looks like he’s being checked into the boards. Oh, and putting the cup in the background is like the cubs sayings next year is here, don’t celebrate before you get there.

Wtf its gonna be so over for us. Why the heck would anyone paint this. Toews has led this team to victocy night after night this is a jinx on the cupp ever coming home to Chicago. look at the cubs the bearss come on chicago every HAWKSFAN out there needs to PRAY to the glory hockey god above and askk him to look over us being 1st in the central after this psh idk what to expect

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Alex Garcia is a Chicago-based editorial and commercial photographer with a heart for visual storytelling. His passion for telling stories of people in any context is rooted in a 20+ year career as a photojournalist for the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, where his awards have included a Pulitzer Prize and a World Press Photo Golden Eye. He is a frequent speaker, lecturer and consultant with a growing list of national and international clients. The previous incarnation of his blog of the same name can be found at the Chicago Tribune.

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